We Are The Weirdos: Short Horror Film Festival 2019
We Are The Weirdos is a short horror film festival brought to London and other places all over the UK by The Final Girls. It showcases some of the most incredible talent that horror has to offer and helps to support the Women in Horror…
FINAL GIRLS: Flesh and Blood Shorts
Blood Runs Down We follow a mother and daughter as they pass through three stages; Idolatry, Resentment and Grief. These three stages represent aspects of their lives and show them in different circumstances through a short period of time together. In the opening sequence, the…
REVIEW: Do No Harm (2019)
Do No Harm is an insanely well-made short film. Director Sam Blakeney-Edwards has crafted an unnerving film with a strong beginning, middle and end (all inside of 12 minutes). The premise of the film is about a Junior doctor ‘Dr Bloom’ (Oliver Rednall) on the night shift…
London Short Film Festival: Midnight Movies
A selection of bite-sized horrors served up as is LSFF tradition: at (just about!) midnight. Expect hints of Under the Skin sprinkled with Stranger Things, zombies, vigilante social justice shapeshifters, witches and scientific experiments gone awry – all any horror lover needs The Midnight Movies…
London Short Film Festival: Generation Gap
In Sweden, a single thirty-something woman awkwardly regales her son of her taste for younger men, whilst across the globe a nervous tourist seeks to impress his fun-loving Filipino father by adopting a hard-drinking, chain-smoking teen. These short films zoom in on the tempestuous and…
London Short Film Festival: Creature Comforts
If you’ve been following the site over the last couple of days, you’ll have seen our coverage of the London Film Festival this year, from the lovely bunch here at JumpCut Online. Today, I’d like to share my picks from the Creature Comforts category this…
London Short Film Festival: A Hostile World
From the lifelong trauma of experiencing an atomic bomb to the suffocating ubiquity of tabloid culture, this international selection looks to shine a light on the hostile, dangerous worlds we occupy – those interior and those waking nightmares, where standing up for injustice is inextricable…
London Short Film Festival: Out Of History
This international selection sifts through the rubble of history, finding new meaning in the aesthetics, ideology and artefacts of the past. Whether it be finding parallels between the romantic mysticism of medieval knights and the political dissenters of today or the timely excavation of surveillance…
London Short Film Festival: A State Of Anxiety
Straddling the political and the personal, this collection surveys the multitudinous causes of anxiety in the 21st century, from the angst of familial strife to the numbed alienation of violence filtered through social media. Combining a heady mix of animation, experimental film and drama, this…
REVIEW: Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
Le Voyage Dans la Lune or A Trip To The Moon to you and I philistines is a French film from 1902. Taught in film studies classes all over the world it is one of the first narrative films ever made. Directed by George Melies,…
